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In 1945, a computer at Harvard malfunctioned and Grace Hopper, who was working on the computer, investigated and found a moth in one of the circuits and removed it. Ever since, when something goes wrong with a computer, it is said to have a bug in it.

= a total of 253,347 sq. mi. COUNTING the area that once was part of Texas

Texas when it, as an INDEPENDENT NATION, voluntarily joined the United States, consisted of all of present day Texas, parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, Wyoming, about 1/3rd of Colorado and over 1/2 of New Mexico, that part east of the Rio Grande River, a little less than twice it's present area. A total of

I think that the fabled El Idahoe-dorado was way smaller than the original Texas - including that the part that is now part of Wyoming and could not have been part of the fabled El Idahoe-dorado - was much smaller than Texas when it became part of the Union and smaller than Texas as it is now.

Sorry, sheep-gut-eater.

AND

... that Scotland has only a small measure of self-rule compared to other parts of the British Commonwealth.

I am already yawning in anticipation. Let me know 15 minutes before you post so I can brew some extra strong coffee.

BTW, for some reason the Scots are actually over represented (I have a theory about why that is which would probably get me banned. Let's just say it's to do with something with which you are rather familiar [])

Anyway, it seems the Scots get to elect members of the UK Parliament (which, by accident, happens to be in London and therefore causes Americans to assume Scotland is ruled by England, which it ain't) and now they also get to elect members of the Scottish Parliament which seems to be about as much use as a chocolate teapot - IMHO. Though I suppose, if you only ever drank iced tea, a chocolate teapot would not really be all that bad. Where the hell was I?

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There ain'ta no sanity clause, and there ain'ta no centrifugal force Šther.

That the first functional nuclear reactor in Sweden was built 1950 under the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in the middle of Stockholm city. ...sorry, you cannot view external links. To see them, please
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